A Ride on the Psychedelic Bus
Montage created from eight original paintings by Una Toibin.
This work was originally created as an advertisement for the multi-media CD-ROM game, “The Psychedelic Bus of Dead Knowledge.” Shortly thereafter, the piece was featured on the cover of Relix Magazine (Dec 1999) and subsequently produced as a signed and numbered poster. This poster is not available for retail sale.
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Like many other musical and visual artists, Una Toibin found inspiration for her artistic efforts in the bubbling creative caldron that is live Grateful Dead music. Una echoes visually what she hears, and she tries to honor the music in her work.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Una got “on the bus” in the early 1980s during the band’s Mid-Atlantic stops. She currently runs CCE Graphics in Virginia Beach, and more of her work can be seen at seen at CCEgraphics.com and UnaToibin.com.

Through the years, Una has remained very interested in the efforts of all the members of the Grateful Dead’s extended family and is thrilled with the revival that is underway with Mickey’s band, 7 Walkers, and Furthur. She would like to thank them all for constantly opening her eyes to the world and she looks forward to what will come next on our Golden Road. Jerry and the great Robert Hunter advised us long ago “Who can stop what must arrive now? Something new is waiting, to be born.” Let us celebrate these new births together in music and art by supporting the KPFA auction!

Auction begins now and ends at noon PST on Wednesday, February 1. Bidding begins at $100. Bid by posting in the comments section below, and please keep coming back to top competing bids!

This is the current status of all open auctions. Please click on each line to visit the individual posts, look at the items, and place your bids! Or use this tag to call them all up at once. Place your bid in the comments section of the post containing the item you want. Auctions close on February 1. More info on the February 4 marathon here.

This is the current status of all open auctions. Please click on each line to visit the individual posts, look at the items, and place your bids! Or use this tag to call them all up at once. Auctions close on February 1. Place your bid in the comments section of the post containing the image you want. More info on the February 4 marathon here.

This 225-page book documents the special one-night-only preview exhibit of the Grateful Dead Archive held Nov. 5, 2011, at McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz. Written by Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether, the book documents the rich history of Grateful Dead poster art and how that illustrates the band’s archive at UCSC. With feature interviews with Stanley Mouse and hundreds of color illustrations, the book is a fine introduction to how the band’s legacy is being preserved and presented in Santa Cruz.

The book was given to those who attended the benefit event. Nick Meriwether was kind enough to offer us a copy to auction off for KPFA. It’s a hard-cover book, beautifully printed on high-quality paper.

Sonic Studio has donated a copy of Amarra MINI, widely recognized as the best computer audio player for the Macintosh (and the 2011 Stereophile Computer Audio Component of the Year), for auction.

This is a consumer audio playback system that uses the same amazing technology used in my digital audio workstation, soundBlade SE. It works independently or with your iTunes playlists. This is the way to get the best sound out of a Mac-based audio system. I’m going to use it for music playback on marathon day – everything from CDs to 96/24 high-res audio files.

This is the current status of all open auctions. Please click on each line to visit the individual posts, look at the items, and place your bids! Or use this tag to call them all up at once. Auctions close on February 1. Place your bid in the comments section of the post containing the image you want. More info on the February 4 marathon here.

UPDATE form Steven Marcus 1/30/12: “I will also be including one of my Grateful Dead Productions Business cards, and unused ticket to one of the Europe 1990 shows, an original printing of Robert Hunters Elegy for Jerry that he recited at Jerry’s funeral (there were two printings the first one high quality paper and the second on basic heavy paper.) I might put some other things in the book if the bids go higher…”

UPDATE: Steven Marcus posted on Facebook: “I just came back from the Seva Benefit in Sebastopol, and the copy of Dead Letters for the KPFA Auction now has signatures from Wavy Gravy, Stanley Mouse and photographer Jay Blakesberg in addition to Eileen Law, Paul Grushkin, Steve Brown, and former Grateful Dead Ticket Sales employee’s Frankie Accardi, Bruce Ede, Pat Accardi, Gail Nickerson, Mary Knudsen, Tom Reed and yours truly! I am still hoping to get a few more…but at this point, this is pretty cool.